English Phrasal Verbs - Crack Up, Crank Out

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Hey, English learners. Welcome to another phrasal verb episode. I hope you're doing great and that you're ready to learn two new phrasal verbs today. The first one is crack up, and the second one is crank out. So first, let me define these phrasal verbs and give you an example of each one. Crack up means to burst into laughter. In other words, you suddenly start laughing. For example, I could say, "He cracked up when he heard the joke." In this sentence, I'm saying that he suddenly started laughing. He burst into laughter when he heard the joke. So that's crack up. Crank out means to produce something rapidly and mechanically with no special effort. For example, I could say, "Students have to crank out essay after essay in that class." Here, I'm saying that students have to write many, many essays very frequently. They have to produce this work over and over again in that class. So it's a very rapid and mechanical effort, like maybe it doesn't take them a lot of effort. They just